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We were sitting face to face around a small table in Buckingham Palace - three of us from BBC Newsnight, plus Prince Andrew, his private secretary and Princess Beatrice, who was writing in a notebook.
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(Top right: their home near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire bottom right: Miss Hall's plans for a stable block near the mansion.) She now believes that led his family to think she was seeking to cut their regular contact with Mr Murdoch. 'She used to joke that she was the Covid police, she wanted to keep him safe,' sources said.
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Miss Hall apparently assumed a 'gatekeeping' role to protect her elderly husband from the risk of Covid. Sources in Miss Hall's camp say issues started to arise between them during the pandemic. It was a stunning show of ruthlessness from Mr Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp who is worth £14 billion. The message added that from here on, she should communicate with him only via his lawyers. I am devastated.' It can be revealed that Miss Hall was waiting in the UK for Mr Murdoch, 91, to join her when he sent an email saying the marriage was over. Model Miss Hall, who is 66 on Saturday, and married Mr Murdoch in 2016, told a friend: 'I still love him. ALISON BOSHOFF: Jerry Hall has been left 'heartbroken' by the abrupt end of her marriage to media mogul Rupert Murdoch and blames his children for driving a wedge between them, insiders said last night.